Sometimes it's hard...

So far parenting has been pretty smooth sailing for us and we're incredibly grateful for that but the last 2 days have been incredibly challenging.

We've suspected OJ has reflux for a while now and we took him to the GP a couple of weeks ago. However, as he was gaining weight well and not too bothered by the reflux, they decided not to treat it. Over the last week or so it has become a far bigger problem in terms of keeping him awake at night and making it impossible to put him down on his back. I mentioned it to the Health Visitor, along with showing her a recording of the horrible sounds he makes when he's laid flat. She confirmed it sounded like reflux and told me to go back to the GP, especially as his weight gain is on the lower end of normal. We are also at the hospital on Monday to see about his tongue tie.

I couldn't get an appointment with the GP on Friday as it was lunchtime by the time the Health Visitor had left so we have to wait until Monday. It's now Sunday evening and we've had an incredibly testing couple of days as OJ has appeared to be in a lot of pain and discomfort, presumably with the reflux. He's been very hard to settle and we are even finding feeding difficult as he's clearly uncomfortable and fidgety. Fortunately ALS has been around with it being the weekend and he's been wonderfully supportive to both myself and OJ.

We are very lucky that it's taken us 6 weeks to experience a particularly bad day or two but I just thought I'd share that it's never all plain sailing.